I believe nofollow tag is like a flag, where the search engine may determine if the link is a valid vote or not. If search engines are that good ranking pages, they might be capable of analyze the link and to determine if is a relevant link and a quality site. Well, that is what I would do if I were the search engine designer.
Very infomative and insightful. I think it would be stupid of Google to ignore great content because of the nofollow but nailing Matt Cutts down on that point might be hard all the same! :-D
It does, indeed. I like that you learn us to think for ourselfs what makes the most sense when it comes to Google's factors (instead of blindly practice what we read about SEO on the internet) . More of these videos are always welcome.
Thanks! This is exactly the way i felt about the nofollow tag. I also felt that Google perhaps gives more points to certain nofollowlinks on certain websites. I think a link on Youtube is higher in the hierarchy then just some link in a blogcomment.
Nofollow is pointless...Just checkout your inbound on yahoo. Sure they are "nofollow" but this doesn't mean they are "nocrawler" =)
aoclarkejr 1 year ago
very good information, nice job
DaveWilliamsJr 1 year ago
This is outdated.. Nofollow links don't do squat now..
scott231us 2 years ago
@scott231us - entirely TRUE! Thanks for the update, I'll add an annotation to this video.
wilreynolds 2 years ago
I believe nofollow tag is like a flag, where the search engine may determine if the link is a valid vote or not. If search engines are that good ranking pages, they might be capable of analyze the link and to determine if is a relevant link and a quality site. Well, that is what I would do if I were the search engine designer.
nikomaster12 2 years ago
how do you handle no follows when sculpting and molding the site your creating non-blog)?
should I no follow as the dumb page ie: about-us, history, links page
HOWTOtony 2 years ago
no follow the "dumb" pages for sure when attempting to sculpt internal link juice flow.
wilreynolds 2 years ago
Very infomative and insightful. I think it would be stupid of Google to ignore great content because of the nofollow but nailing Matt Cutts down on that point might be hard all the same! :-D
goldsteinmedia 2 years ago
It would be great, but I can image Matt would say, go get good links regardless of the no follow, just build a good site, you know.
wilreynolds 2 years ago
excellent points. having links weather no follow or not are still important to drive traffic to your sites
YunTraining 2 years ago
Yeah, not to mention, I think the links do still have seo value in certain instances.
wilreynolds 2 years ago
Hi excellent videos, I have just come across you in my adventure to improve my views on you tube thanks for some excellent information regards John
japroctor 2 years ago
You got it! Thanks for the kind words!
wilreynolds 2 years ago
It does, indeed. I like that you learn us to think for ourselfs what makes the most sense when it comes to Google's factors (instead of blindly practice what we read about SEO on the internet) . More of these videos are always welcome.
aminozuur 2 years ago
Thanks! This is exactly the way i felt about the nofollow tag. I also felt that Google perhaps gives more points to certain nofollowlinks on certain websites. I think a link on Youtube is higher in the hierarchy then just some link in a blogcomment.
aminozuur 2 years ago
You got it! Just makes sense that it has some value right?
wilreynolds 2 years ago
Short and sweet!
nealg2g 2 years ago 3